THE ANTARCTICAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER “BY AND FOR ALL ANTARCTICANS” VOL. 07-08 NOVEMBER NO. 2 CONTENTS

PRESIDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS...... cover SOUTH ASSOCIATION...... 5 Dr. Arthur B. Ford 400 Ringwood Avenue BRASH ICE...... 1 BRITISH SEABED CLAIM...... 5 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (650) 851-1532 SPEAKER FOR JOINT MEETING...... 2 JERRY KOOYMAN AWARD...... 6 [email protected] SOUTH POLE DEDICATION...... 2 PHYLACTERIES AT THE SOUTH POLE...... 6 VICE PRESIDENT Robert B. Flint, Jr. CD ROM STILL AVAILABLE...... 2 CAM CRADDOCK TRIBUTE...... 7 185 Bear Gulch Road Woodside, CA 94062 ANTARCTIC MUSIC...... 3 I KNEW YOUR FATHER...... 8 Phone: (650) 851-1532 [email protected] Type to enter text CONVERSATION WITH AMUNDSEN...... 8 Type to enter text TREASURER Type to enter text Dr. Paul C. Dalrymple Box 325, Port Clyde, ME 04855 Phone: (207) 372-6523 [email protected] ANNOUNCEMENTS

SECRETARY Charles Lagerbom YOU NOW HAVE A CHOICE, NEWSLETTER WILL BECOME AVAILABLE 83 Achorn Rd. Belfast, ME 04915 ELECTRONICALLY. Starting with our next issue, anticipated in late January 2008, you (207)548-0923 can pick up your Newsletter on our new web site which will be up and running the first of [email protected] the year, Members who choose to receive issues on the website will be given a password WEBMASTER which will allow you access to the web site. And there will be a slight reduction (to be Thomas E. Henderson determined) in membership dues. Interested persons should contact our webmaster, Tom 520 Normanskill Place Henderson, whose address is shown on the masthead to the left. If you want to continue to Slingerlands, NY 12159 get hard copies of the Newsletter, just keep quiet! Phone: (518) 862-9623 [email protected] JOINT DINNER MEETING WITH THE EXPLORERS CLUB, WASHINGTON Past Presidents GROUP, INC., on Saturday, December 1, 2007, at the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Dr. Carl R. Eklund 1959-61 Dr. Paul A. Siple 1961-62 Ave., NW. Dinner reservations, $65.00 (check payable to ECWG) should be sent to Donald Mr. Gordon D. Cartwright 1962-63 J. Gerson, 3148 Castleleigh Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20904-1713. Tel 240-293-6570. RADM David M. Tyree (Ret.) 1963-64 Speaker will be Dr. Anna Kerttula de Echave, the subject, The Human Face of Climate Mr. George R. Toney 1964-65 Mr. Morton J. Rubin 1965-66 Change. See page 2 of this Newsletter for further information. Dr. Albert P. Crary 1966-68 Dr. Henry M. Dater 1968-70 SPSE/SM STATION DEDICATION, January 12, 2008. The acronym is misleading Dr. George A. Doumani 1970-71 rd Dr. William J. L. Sladen 1971-73 unless you are a member of the Club. It stands for the 3 Amundsen -Scott Mr. Peter F. Bermel 1973-75 South Pole Station. Dr. Kenneth J. Bertrand 1975-77 Mrs. Paul A. Siple 1977-78 Dr. Paul C. Dalrymple 1978-80 ANTARCTICAN SOCIETY PREPARES TO MAKE FIRST DONATION FROM THE Dr. Meredith F. Burrill 1980-82 RUTH J. SIPLE FUND TO LIBRARY AT THE SOUTH POLE. See page 1. Dr. Mort D. Turner 1982-84 Dr. Edward P. Todd 1984-86 Mr. Robert H. T. Dodson 1986-88 CDs on Antarctican Society still on sale, see page 2 of this Newsletter. Checks for same, Dr. Robert H. Rutford 1988-90 $20.00 each, should be made out to the Antarctican Society, and mailed to Box 325, Port Mr. Guy G. Guthridge 1990-92 Clyde, ME 04855. Dr. Polly A. Penhale 1992-94 Mr. Tony K. Meunier 1994-96 Mr. Ron Naveen 1996-98 2008 HEDGEHOG ANTARCTIC CALENDARS still available until 10 December. For Dr. Paul C. Dalrymple 1998-00 US and Canada residents, $14.00 each. Checks payable to the Antarctican Society should be Ms. Kristin Larson 2000-02 Mr. John Splettstoesser 2002-04 mailed to Box 325, Port Clyde, ME 04855. Mr. Robert B. Flint Jr. 2004-07

BRASH ICE.These have been very busy days in the South Pole in a few weeks are shown in a the Head Sheds of the Antarctican Society, as we resume by Valmar on page 3. A complimentary are in the midst of some very radical changes set is being collected by Valmar which the Society which will hopefully guide our Society into a hopes to send to Palmer later in 2008. This is just continuous growth period with new, young the beginning of how our Society will enhance the invigorating members. This organization was libraries in the Antarctic through the Ruth J. Siple founded shortly after Plymouth and Jamestown, Fund, which will continue to be our Society’s and more Ancients and Honorables are dying than charity. Fresh, New Bloods are joining. Thanks to Tom Henderson, we have and are taking steps to We feel that it is most important to have the first change things. The first was his producing a contribution from the Ruth J. Siple Fund to be in historical document of who we have been, who the musical field, as music was one of Ruth’s true we currently are. It was a labor of true love by loves. She sang in the choral group at her college, Tom, one that Lou Lanzerotti of the most although we are not exactly certain on what basis prestigious National Science Board has described she was selected, as she was low-toned. Later on “ the CD is terrific. The history recorded is she took up the harp, and enjoyed playing that priceless.” And Dr. Chester Pierce of Harvard instrument for many years. She loved to listen to Medical wrote “a marvelous legacy for classical music, and daily listened to this FM generations to come.” station in Washington that featured classical music. She possessed a fine collection of Our next step forward, another Tom Henderson classical CD’s, which she often listened to in the Production, is the creation of an Antarctican confines of her home. It is most appropriate that Society Website. It is being field tested by some this Antarctic musical donation from the of our cornerstones, and we expect that it will be Antarctican Society’s Ruth J. Siple Fund be at this up and running by early January 2008. Tom time, the dedication of the 3rd South Pole Station. invites suggestions for improvement from all Ruth, herself, was at the dedication of the 2nd readers. Our Newsletters will go onto the website South Pole Station, and her late husband was the at the beginning of the year, but will be protected Grand Marshall of the 1st South Pole Station. from non-members access. So from now on our Newsletters will also be distributed electronically Valmar Kurol, a native of Saint John, New to those who take that option. The new site will be Brunswick, came into the Antartican scene found at www.antarctican.org. through his love for the . His first trip to Antarctica was on the Northern Ranger, and he And our third giant step forward is a plan now subsequently made four other trips to the 7th being worked out by a triumvirate of Tom, Jerry Continent. His most recent trip was in 2003 when Marty, and Katy Jensen whereby members he went with the Canadian Students on Ice wintering over at the South Pole and Palmer will Program headed up by Geoff Green. Valmar be given complimentary access to the website, produces an Antarctic Newsletter out of , including access to copies of our Newsletters. We the Seventh Continent, although at this time it is are going all out to make our Newsletters in a state of rest. Valmar is a tried and true something of interest to younger active members. musician in his own right, and his ANTARCTIC The complimentary access will be discontinued at ARRIVAL, produced in 1999, is a fine collection the end of winter, at which time we hope at least a of twelve Antarctic pieces. Buy it, you are sure to few of the current Antarcticans will want to enjoy it. He can be reached by e-mail: continue on as paying members – and hopefully [email protected]. contributors. Now for the bad news. We are going up in our As we announced on the cover page, our Society Membership dues, but only a modest amount, to is making its first contribution from the Ruth J. $15.00 per year. Still a bargain, less than half a Siple Fund to the South Pole Library, a handsome tank full of gas. However, for all of you faithful, box with a collection of Antarctic Music CDs we have a bit of good news. If you want to selected and procured for us by a musical expert extend before 31 December 2007, you can sign who just happens to be an Antarctican, Valmar up for the present rate: $12.00 per year. Kurol of Montreal. The list of the pieces going to

1 DR ANNA KERTTULA de ECHAVE ANTARCTICAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER SPEAKS. Our speaker at the December 1st CD-ROM STILL AVAILABLE! (Tom meeting with the Explorers Club Washington Henderson) The CD-ROM containing the entire Group (see cover sheet) will be an anthropologist archive of Antarctican Society newsletters and and native Alaskan who has been observing and other documents from 1959 – 2007 is still researching the people of the Arctic for over 40 available to members for the reasonable cost of years. She will talk about the ways in which $20. If you doubt that last assertion, consider: humans have been adapting, or in some cases not adapting, to unpredictable changes n climate for • The archive contains 1,802 individual millennia. Based on the observations of pages and 235 separate documents. indigenous people and recent scientific research • The archive includes both individual findings, she will put a human face to the document files and a single combined file foreboding headlines of and will of all of the documents. The latter is give the audience a deeper insight into our own included for easier searching. future vulnerability and resilience. • The archive is in Adobe PDF format, the most common document format in the ELEVATED SOUTH POLE STATION TO BE world. If you don’t have Adobe Reader DEDICATED. For a few short hours in mid- already installed on your computer (most afternoon on January 12th, 40 invited visitors will people do), you can download it free of be eyewitnesses to the dedication of the new charge from www.adobe.com. megabucks, multiyear erection at the • Because it is in PDF format, you can use Geographical South Pole. It is our understanding the tools built into Adobe Reader to that the station will remain the Amundsen-Scott search for words or phrases in any or all South Pole Station. The lucky few who have been of the documents. For example, if you invited appear not to be the scientists who have enter “Erebus,” it will zoom to the first made the station such an important scientific instance of that word in the archive. Each laboratory, but a potpourri of those who have been click on the Find Next feature then takes “involved with the project funding design, you to each successive occurrence. logistics, construction, and management.” In • There are hundreds of articles about other words, a bunch of bureaucrats will show up, Antarctic people, places and events over spend a few hours there, and go back to McMurdo almost fifty years. later that day. Hopefully, there won’t be a chance • There are dozens of reviews of Antarctic for them to do any damage in the few hours that books, films and other media contained in they will spend at the Pole! the archive. • There are an equal number of obituaries I looked back into my journal to see what I wrote describing in detail the lives and careers about the first dedication of the South Pole of Society members and prominent Station on January 22, 1957. It was held at Antarcticans. McMurdo and I described “the ceremony was • The archive includes the full-color brief and simple.” But there were several commemorative booklet of Dr. Laurence distinguished guests, such as Harry Wexler, Bert Gould’s illustrious career produced in Crary, Larry Gould, Paul-Emile Victor, Trevor limited quantity by Carleton College. Hatherton, and Kaare Rodahl. Speakers were • Finally – and certainly not least – the Gould, Wexler, Rodahl, Hatherton, and two Navy archive contains all of Paul Dalrymple’s men, George Dufek and Willie Dickey. Our ship, writings and ramblings, those labors of the USS CURTISS, was tied up to the bay ice love that Society members have enjoyed about two miles from the station at McMurdo. for the past thirty years. Paul’s wit and the The ice started to break up while we were at the facts, stories, and gossip acquired from station, so 25 of us were stranded overnight at the his huge network of Antarctic contacts station. My journal showed my keen appreciation have made these communiqués for the place, as I wrote “What a miserable thoroughly unique. place!” So isn’t all of that worth $20? Buy one and enjoy hours of reading and reminiscing. And they make

2 excellent Christmas gifts for fellow Antarcticans Slopes of Terror, was composed in 1999 and was or those who would like to be. Just send a check the first musical work resulting from Sir Peter’s made out to the Antarctican Society to: Paul C. Antarctic trip. Dalrymple, Box 325, Port Clyde, ME 04855. 3) MARCH OF THE PENGUINS Original ABOUT ANTARCTIC MUSIC.(Valmar Kurol) Score by Alex Wurman (2005) What is the music of Antarctica? What kinds of The North American version of this French-made tunes does the Antarctic inspire? Is there an documentary won the Oscar for best documentary Antarctic sound? Based on my fifteen years of feature film of 2005. collecting recorded music about Antarctica, the answer is, it’s everything and anything people 4) MARCH OF THE EMPRESS by Emilie bring from their own varied backgrounds. The Simon (2005) classical repertoire appears to be relatively This is the soundtrack for the French version of minimal and it is the pop artists who have been March of the Penguins. The original music, by making more Antarctic musical noises, in some Simon, a French singer and instrumentalist, is in cases literally. While earlier songs may have an electropop New Age style with English vocals. focused on urging listeners to keep the continent The North American version of the film pristine, much of the current crop seems to hold developed an entirely different soundtrack of Antarctica as a mirror/metaphor for the coldness serious orchestral music. and isolation people feel in their day to day lives. The music collected for the Ruth J. Siple 5) MUSIC FROM SEVEN CONTINENTS Vol. Collection at the South Pole includes the 2 by The Cincinnati Boychoir (2004) beautiful, inspirational, comical and the harsh & The CD includes four lively song tracks about the discordant, varying in style from classical to jazz seventh continent. Texts were by Bill Manhire (a and rock. It starts with the mother of all Antarctic New Zealand university professor and poet), from music, Vaughan Williams (7th) Sinfonia Antartica the Book of Job and from the writings of and includes the soundtracks for the latest Antarctic explorers Apsley Cherry-Garrard and penguin flockumentaries. For those who may be , with music composed by interested, a chronological discography of my Carlton Young, an American professor, editor and collected discs is at http:/antarcticcircle.org/ composer of sacred music. valmar.htm. Now let’s roll with the Ruth J. Siple Pole Collection. CDs for the South Pole or any 6) ANTARCTICA – NHK Television 50th hot deserted island... Anniversary Nankyoku Project (2003) NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan’s 1) SINFONIA ANTARTICA (Seventh sole public broadcaster, commemorated the 50th Symphony) by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1998) anniversary of TV broadcasting in Japan in 2003 Conducted by Kees Bakels, Bournemouth by establishing an HDTV broadcasting station in Symphony Orchestra, recorded September 1996; Antarctica in 2003. This is the commemorative The background music for the vintage 1949 film music CD (Japan Version). Scott of the Antarctic, by one of Britain's greatest 20th century composers, was later arranged into 7) MUSIC FOR THE SCOTIA CENTENARY his Seventh Symphony, which premiered in 1953 (2002) and is considered to be the mother of all Antarctic Music to celebrate the centenary of the 1902 music. Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under William Bruce. The first half of the disc consists 2) ANTARCTIC SYMPHONY (8 th of seven traditional Scottish country dance tunes SYMPHONY) & HIGH ON THE SLOPES with Antarctic titles. The main event, however, is OF TERROR by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies a 24-minute orchestral suite, South, by Dundee The British Antarctic Survey and the composer Gordon McPherson. Philharmonia Orchestra commissioned prolific British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies to 8) THE SONGS of the ‘MORNING’: a Musical compose an Antarctic Symphony, his 8th Sketch by G. S. Doorly (2002) Symphony, for its première in May 2001. A The Morning was the relief ship sent to resupply companion piece, the 21-minute High on the Robert Scott’s Discovery Expedition of 1901-04.

3 During the Morning’s 1902 voyage to Antarctica, the third officer, Lieut. Gerald Doorly and the 14) DARK ADVENTURE RADIO THEATRE chief engineer, J.D. Morrison, collaborated on a PRESENTS H. P. LOVECRAFT’S “AT THE collection of songs that were performed during MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS” (2006) musical evenings on the ship. The present The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society recording was undertaken as a Discovery () has adapted one of Lovecraft’s best centennial project and the Chorus contains all the regarded stories, written in 1931, in the form of a adult male descendants of Gerald Doorly, along spooky 75 minute radio play about a Byrd-era with professional colleagues and interested Antarctic expedition gone wrong, in the way it friends. All royalties from the sale are to be might have been produced in the 1930s. divided between the Dundee Heritage Trust and the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust for 15) ANTARCTIC SUITE by Wendy Mae their work on the original Expedition’s historic Chambers (1999) artefacts. Wendy Mae Chambers is a -based musician who visited the in 9 ) S H A C K L E TO N ’ S A N TA R C T I C 1999 as a tourist and subsequently recorded a CD ADVENTURE – Original Giant Motion Picture of solo compositions inspired by her trip. Soundtrack Composed by Sam Cardon (2001) The of the superb IMAX film about the 16) ANTARCTIC ARRIVAL - a Tribute to a Endurance Expedition. Frozen Land by Valmar Kurol and Marc-André Bourbonnais (1999) 10) SHACKLETON – Original Score by Adrian This Montreal-produced CD contains ten thematic Johnston (2001) instrumental pieces and two vocal tracks in New This score for the two-part four-hour TV Age/light rock/classical styles, based on Kurol’s dramatization of Shackleton’s Endurance three visits to Antarctica in the 1990s. Expedition, featuring the prominent British actor Kenneth Branagh in the title role. 17) ANTARCTICA by Ian Tamblyn (1994) Tamblyn is an Ottawa-area Canadian pop-folk 11) FROM AUSTRALIA – , guitar artist and expedition tour lecturer. This recording (1994) is associated with the CBC radio documentary, Includes Antarctica - Suite for Guitar and Notes from the Bottom of the World, based on his Orchestra by Australian Nigel Westlake. trip to McMurdo Sound. The music is a Westlake wrote the score for the IMAX film combination of New Age/folk-rock/jazz Antarctica and later reworked it into this longer influences. 1992 guitar concerto in four movements. 18) ANTARCTICA by Richie Beirach (recorded 12) ANTARCTICA - The Film Music, 1985, issued 1994) composed by Nigel Westlake (1992) Beirach is an American jazz artist who improvises The CD of the score of the IMAX film Antarctica on elements of eclectic modern music in his piano has thirteen mostly short orchestral tracks of solo Antarctica Suite. various themes portrayed in the movie, four of which were developed into the previously 19) POLAR SHIFT - A Benefit for Antarctica, mentioned guitar concerto. various artists (1991) A compilation of New Age instrumental and vocal 13) TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH - music dedicated to the conservation of Antarctica. Original Soundtrack Recording - music composed and conducted by John Scott (1988) 20) ANTARCTICA by Vangelis (1983) This is the soundtrack for the William Kronick Synthesizer music from Koreyoshi Kurahara’s documentary film about The Transglobe film of the same name. Best song is the title Expedition, led by Ranulph Fiennes. Over a track, Theme from Antarctica, which, arguably, three-year period ending in 1982, the team still remains the definitive Antarctic mood music. circumnavigated the globe along its polar axis from North to South Poles, being the first to do 21) PROGRESS · REFORM by iLiKETRAiNS so. (2006)

4 Only a British group could open their debut rock Wilkes. CDs 2 & 3 cover the voyages to the disc with a track called Terra Nova, named after and along the Adélie Robert Scott’s 1910-1912 South Pole expedition Coast, respectively. and ship. A special treat is the accompanying video of the Terra Nova soundtrack, portraying THE SOUTH GEORGIA ASSOCIATION was the fated South Pole march. It is complete with a formed in 2001 to give voice to those who care miniature ship, expeditioners and styrofoam ice. about South Georgia. South Georgia is a sub- Antarctic island of exceptional natural beauty and 22) RECONSTRUCTION SITE by The rich wildlife both on land and at sea. Its snow- Weakerthans (2003) covered peaks, and emerald-green bays The Weakerthans are a Canadian alt-rock band are a breathtaking sight. It has an interesting and this CD contains the track Our Retired history, is environmentally vulnerable and is Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault in , home to two scientific research stations -- one in 1961), about an imaginary Historic-era explorer Cumberland Bay and one on Bird Island. The who has seen better days. The enhanced CD also association (www.southgeorgiaassociation.org) includes a video of the soundtrack, complete with aims to hold two meetings a year in Britain and ice, dogs hauling a sled, an underground den, publishes a newsletter. Members are alerted to penguins, and sailing ship. important sources of information such as the official South Georgia website www.sgisland.org 23) CÄRNIVAL OF CHAOS by GWAR (1997) which publishes a monthly newsletter, and the This American theatrical shock-rock heavy-metal South Georgia Heritage Trust www.sght.org group slashes and burns from their opening number, Penguin Attack and then does further Membership of the association is open to all. The damage to the ears with Antarctican Drinking subscription is £15 annually or £50 for a five-year Song. subscription. There are 360 individual members and four corporate members. We have members 24) ANGEL ABOVE MY PIANO by Fiona Joy (in descending order of numbers) from UK, USA, Hawkins (2006) South Georgia, Falkland Islands, Norway, Fiona Joy is an Australian painter and pianist Australia, France, Canada, Ireland, , New whose CD of romantic New Age piano presents a Zealand, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, , suite of Antarctic Interludes, based on her trip to Uruguay, Zimbabwe, Netherlands and . the Ross Sea side of Antarctica in 2005. For added interest, the museum at Grytviken has a 25) ANTARTICA by Gale Revilla (1999) new Curator, Elsa Davidson, with Tim and Gale Revilla is a Nevada-based New Age Pauline Carr having moved on in life, to New synthesizer artist. This CD is based on the idea of Zealand. The museum email address is Ancient Civilizations and Antarctica as Atlantis. [email protected]. Current president of the South Georgia Association is our own Charles 26) PENGUINS ON THE MOON by Sack Trick Swithinbank. (2000) The British Sack Trick is a revolving group of BRITAIN TO STAKE CLAIM FOR comedic musicians and the CD is an entertaining ANTARCTIC SEABED. (Excerpted from the heavy metal/music hall/rock musical about a Malaysia Sun, The Guardian, 17 Oct. 2007, group of penguins in Antarctica who take a Margaret Lanyon/Christchurch Press, various spaceship to the moon. websites, and editorial prerogative.)

27) SEA OF GLORY America’s Voyage of The news that the UK intends to file a claim for Discovery – The U.S. Exploring Expedition sovereignty over the seabed adjacent to its 1838-1842 - book by Nathaniel Philbrick, read by Antarctic territorial claim will significantly Dennis Boutsikaris (2003) change the way we think about Antarctica. This 5-CD, 6-hour package is a superb invitation/ teaser for reading the book about the controversial When the original 12 signatories signed the and little-known U.S. Exploring Expedition of Antarctic Treaty nearly 50 years ago, they agreed 1838-1842 (the U.S. Ex. Ex.), led by Charles to put their territorial claims over the remote

5 continent into abeyance, a major geopolitical JERRY KOOYMAN, “MAYOR OF CAPE milestone. The international agreement stated that WASHINGTON,” COLLECTS WELL- the interests of individual nations should come DESERVED AWARDS. Dr. Gerald Kooyman, second to preserving Antarctica as a common of Scripps Institution of at UC San heritage for all countries. So, even at the height of Diego, received ’s Explorers Club the cold war, the idea of Antarctica as a highest award in 2007, the Finn Ronne Memorial demilitarised continent dedicated to science in a Award for Polar Field Science and Exploration spirit of international cooperation was born. So “for his innovative and groundbreaking research much for the idealistic aspects of the Treaty, on the diving behavior and physiology of Weddell because the high seas surrounding Antarctica, seals and emperor penguins and for scientific technically speaking, lie outside the bounded land achievement during a lifetime of Antarctic field of the Antarctic continent and are therefore research.” Kooyman was the first scientist to subject to the UN convention on the law of the design and implement studies using a time-depth sea treaty (UNCLOS), which was signed in 1982. recorder to measure diving in free-diving seals. Whether the seabed will be considered as an In recent years, he has focused his research on extension of the land and therefore subject to the diving and population studies in emperor Antarctic Treaty, which covers territory south of penguins. If you have visited Cape Washington in 60 degrees, or whether it will be treated as part of the Ross Sea on a Russian icebreaker in about the high seas and governed by the law of the sea November, you have probably seen Jerry and his remains to be seen. That said, Britain and colleagues studying the colony of 20,000 – 25,000 Australia appear to believe that the law of the sea breeding pairs of emperor penguins, probably the will take precedence in seabed disputes. largest in all of Antarctica. Total population of the species in a 1993 SCAR report listed 195,000 Somehow, it doesn't seem right to tamper with breeding pairs in more than 40 individual what is, and has been, a unique Treaty that covers colonies. Part of his studies in instrumenting the only part of our planet above sea level that emperors is to determine where newly hatched belongs to no one. Adjacent seafloors should be chicks go after fledging, as well as their diving treated with the same respect. limits while foraging. During recent expeditions to Antarctica, Kooyman has documented climate- The International Seabed Authority (1994) induced changes and their impacts on emperor enables states to register territorial claims to penguin habitats. In addition to the award from sovereignty over their continental shelves. The Explorers Club, he was the first recipient in Shelves come in all shapes and sizes. Some go 2005 of the Kenneth Norris Lifetime well beyond the recognised 200-mile exclusive Achievement Award from the Society for Marine economic zones, and can therefore be critical for Mammalogy. accessing greater resource rights. PHYLACTERIES AT THE SOUTH POLE Why is this happening now? The answer, in a (from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Bulletin of word, is energy. The world's largest economies, January 11, 1974). Roy Millenson, a staff including the UK, are seeking new supplies of member of the National Science Foundation’s energy away from the instability of the Middle subcommittee of the Senate Labor and Public East, without wanting to depend on the whim of Welfare Committee and an aide to Sen Jacob K. Russia or any other nation. The ocean seabed is a Javits (R, NY) found himself at the South Pole resource frontier with the potential for immense with a Congressional delegation inspecting the mineral wealth. Critics (Greenpeace and World station in January 1974. Roy brought with him Wildlife Fund) have already voiced their the phylacteries that his parents had given him for displeasure at this move by a major Treaty Party, his Bar Mitzvah at the Adas Israel Synagogue and has stated that its territorial claim in some forty years before. This Synagogue Antarctica remains as originally outlined, not to became a national monument and subsequently a be affected by the U.K. proposal. Further details museum and library for our country’s centennial. can be found with a Google search for 'U.K. claim', including one link to a fancy map of the Roy had worn the phylacteries over the years, proposed U.K. areal claim. and his rabbi said that the proper way to dispose of them was by burial. So the Antarctic trip came

6 along and he took them with him. He put them in Mexico, Wyoming, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. a paper bag bearing the date, January 3, 1974, and Cam was a teacher (over 8000 students were placed them in a hole three feet deep. Then Roy taught in his classes at The University of said two prayers—the “shechayuno” and the Minnesota and University of Wisconsin). He was “shma” and covered them with snow, forever the advisor or co-advisor for 21 PhD students and preserved in a permanent deep freeze. The 69 Masters students. He was a researcher who temperature at the time was a balmy –14F. published. He was senior author on some 138 papers and was a joint author on an additional I (Paul Dalrymple) remembered Roy telling me 100-plus papers. (I would note here that he was back in the 1970s about what he did, and he generous with his students on authorship of thought that perhaps this was the first ever such papers.) He was active in University affairs, burial of Jewish effects at the South Pole. serving on committees and as chair of the Naturally he was very proud to be at the South department at Wisconsin. He served a number of Pole and was even happier that he could leave his organizations well, and was recognized by the own phylacteries, given to him by his parents. Geological Society of America when he was Then I recently read in the Antarctic Sun about awarded their Distinguished Service Award in how the station manager at the South Pole was 1988. Most recently the Board of Geographic assembling historical memorabilia gathered at the names revised the names applied in the southern stations in the past fifty years for permanent Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains and display. I thought back to what Roy had told me, recognized Cam’s contributions to the and I went onto the internet and finally tracked understanding of the geology of that area by down his son, also a Roy. We had a great talk, he naming the large block of mountains Craddock was as communicative as his late father, and was Massif, where also is found Mount Craddock, just most happy to cooperate with me, supplying me south of Vinson Massif, the highest mountain in with the above details. I trust the station manager Antarctica. can find room for this touching and most unique piece of South Pole history. At the recently completed International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES), CAM CRADDOCK – A SPECIAL TRIBUTE. the late Cam Craddock was honored in a number (Bob Rutford)Cam Craddock (John Campbell of ways. A continuing session of lectures under Craddock) died July 23, 2006. Cam was one of the general heading of “Antarctica in Rodinia, the first geologists to venture into Antarctica Gondwana and Pangea” were presented on three following the International Geophysical Year, and consecutive afternoons “in honor of the following his first trip to Antarctica in 1959, he contributions of Campbell Craddock.” A total of spent 6 additional field seasons and one DSDP 31 papers were presented in the formal sessions. cruise south of the Antarctic Circle. He served on many committees dealing with maps of the One session dealt specifically with Cam, and the Antarctic, was active in SCAR, served on the papers were authored by his son, John, and his Polar Research Board, was the organizer and host students, John Splettstoesser, Jerry Webers, and of the Third Symposium on Antarctic Geology Bob Rutford. John Craddock made a and Geophysics, and was active in a number of presentation about his father’s life and his international committees and organizations. interests in things other than geology. He also gave a most interesting paper describing work on Following Cam’s field seasons in Antarctica he the carbonate breccia bodies found in the Heritage became interested and involved in Arctic research Range of the Ellsworth Mountains. Bob Rutford in both Alaska and Svalbard. He spent parts of 12 summarized Cam’s contributions to Antarctic summers with students in the Alaska Range and 9 geology and presented a paper on the Jones summers in Svalbard. His work was supported by Mountains, a feature discovered by Cam, Ed grants from The National Science Foundation and Thiel, and Ed Robinson in January of 1960. in Svalbard with logistic support from the Some anecdotes about Cam and those who shared Norwegian Polar Institute. In addition he a tent with him in Antarctic field projects spiced continued his interest in the geology of the Upper the presentation. The papers by Webers and by Midwest and the western part of the U.S., Splettstoesser were delivered by John Craddock, supervising students in their work in New as the authors were unable to attend .A highlight

7 of the opening session was Ian Dalziel’s paper “I see you are wearing a South Pole Station cap, entitled “The Ellsworth Mountains: Critical and have you by chance been there?” I replied, “Yes, enduringly enigmatic.” The Proceedings of all your Honor, I was privileged to go there in 1957, sessions, plus abstracts of papers, are online at and spent a whole year there. You, your Honor, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/. changed my whole life, I want to thank you so much.” And he answered. “Son, please just call I KNEW YOUR FATHER. About a year ago, I me Roald, and if you don’t mind, will you answer found myself being wheeled into the Operating some questions for me? You see most people Room for minor surgery at Mercy Hospital in come by, see my statue, really do not see me, but Portland, Maine. The pushers stopped the gurney they take pictures and go on their merry way. to talk to this doctor, and I heard one address this person as “Hedblom”. I opened my eyes, looked I sort of dropped off the surface of the earth back the guy over, and said “I knew your father.” He in 1928 when I went looking for a downed polar was somewhat surprised, as his father had been explorer who wasn’t even a close friend of mine. dead for several years, and here I was a How does the world now look upon me?” I completely unknown person, telling him that I wasn’t expecting such a tough question, but I knew his old man. And he said, “Where did you finally gathered some thoughts and said, “Roald, I know my father?” I replied, “I met him fifty think most people in this world would put you in years ago at Little America V.” He was aghast, the top three as a polar explorer. To be utterly and said “I want to talk to you after you come out truthful, I think you would come in a close second of surgery.” to your fellow countryman, Fridtjof Nansen. However, Sir Ernest has benefited by a Dr. Hedlom was the senior Naval Officer in Deep groundswell of popularity in recent years. You Freeze II, He was a giant of a man, at least six know there is a popular saying going around, if feet, five. He wore this tent-size white canopy you want to obtain a goal, go with Amundsen; if with a great big red cross on his back. Couldn’t you want to go for science, go with Scott; if you miss him. And when I opened my eyes and saw want to come back, go with Shackleton.” Roald this doctor who was also a giant of a man, whose sort of chuckled over that, but then cleared his name was Hedblom, I knew that he had to be a throat as he hadn’t been talking for many years, son of Captain Hedblom . I remembered that his and bristling said “Well, that really isn’t totally Dad was a strong Mason, and here his son was fair to me, as I brought back all of my men alive, working in a Roman Catholic hospital. So I sort and Ernest did not bring back all of his party from of needled him by saying, “Wasn’t your Dad a the other side.” I answered, “You are truthful, but strong Mason?” Fifty years can be a short time, the Boss got a lot out of South Georgia and occasionally. Elephant Island, and people never get tired of hearing those stories about him. The trouble with CONVERSATION WITH AMUNDSEN.( The you, Roald, was that you planned so well, following does not constitute the official view of executed your plans to perfection, that you left the Antarctican Society) nothing for the public to criticize. You were just In late August of this year, I found myself at the too perfect, too drab, and that is not how you win feet of a man who I had long admired. I was in popularity contests.” Tromsø, a coastal town in northern Norway. I was in a park near the waterfront, a park called Roald continued with, “When I vanished in the Amundsen, and the name “Roald Amundsen” summer of 1928, several of my men were appeared in a granitic base. It was late in the preparing to leave for Antarctica with an afternoon, and the skies were darkening, but I American who had come to me to seek could still see my hero quite easily. I was information, a man by the name of Richard E. transfixed, frozen, wondering a thousand different Byrd. Would you be so kind as to tell me what thoughts about the man in polar garb standing kind of an expedition they had, as their directly in front of me. destination was the same as mine, the Bay of Whales.” I answered, “Well. Roald, one of the Suddenly I started to hear strange noises. and he main purposes of their expedition was to fly, appeared to be trying to move. All of a sudden he particularly to the South Pole. They had hoped to looked down on me and spoke in broken English, be the very first to ever fly in Antarctica, but

8 George Wilkins, an Australian who you no doubt Peary, was also being looked at with jaundiced knew, won that distinction with a flight from the eyes. I told Roald that his least favorite beach at . However, your dear geographic society had hired an explorer/ friend and fellow Norwegian, Bernt Balchen, adventurer from the U.K., one Wally Herbert, to piloted the first plane, a Ford Tri-Motor, over the prove that Peary actually did reach the Pole. South Pole in late November 1929. In support of However, after an exhaustive study, Wally wasn’t that flight. a geologist by the name of Larry able with a clear conscience to tell that society Gould led a dog sledging support party out into that Peary had actually gotten there! the Queen Maud Mountains. On Christmas Day, atop of Mt. Betty, they saw a cairn which you had You might be interested to know that ten years erected on your return trip from the Pole, and ago when I was in , I walked down on the inside was a page from your notebook that read pier late one afternoon and got into a conversation that you all had reached the Pole. A Norwegian with this man who had just come down the with Gould by the name of Carl Petersen gangway from a ship. He was on his way to the translated your writings. Larry carefully folded Antarctic, a 100th Anniversary trip of your old your page, commiting himself to some day ship, the BELGICA, the travelers being relatives personally delivering it to your king. It came of Adrien de Gerlache. How about that! sooner than he anticipated as your government Incidentally tourism in Antarctica is a flourishing invited him to Oslo to accept the Cross of St. Olaf business. This year they are expecting 30,000 from King Haakon. tourists to visit the continent. About half of them will be on giant behemoths of ships, carrying over Byrd came back to the Antarctic for a second a thousand passengers who will just cruise with time with another expedition. That was in their binoculars with no landings. 1933-35, and he decided that he would live alone out on the Ross Ice Shelf, about a hundred miles That led me to follow up on Byrd and his flights from Little America II. That turned out to be to the North Pole. It seems since Roald’s nearly a disastrous mistake, as Byrd was not vanishing that some second thoughts have arisen really an expeditioner, and had to be rescued in as to whether Byrd’s plane actually got to the mid-winter. However, the seed had been planted North Pole, turning around short of the in an Eagle Scout by the name of Paul Siple on destination. One of Byrd’s disclaimers was Bernt the 1928-39 expedition, and one might say that Balchen, who was not a great admirer of Byrd. the torch lighted by Byrd was carried to the South Then a Swedish meteorologist did an after-the- Pole for the International Geophysical Year, fact weather analysis saying that Byrd’s plane 1957-58. The South Pole station was dedicated in could not have possibly done it. So then I told your name and Scott’s name in a ceremony at Roald that by default of Peary, Cook, and Byrd, McMurdo in the shadow of Scott’s Discovery hut. that he, himself, Roald Amundsen, could actually I just happened to be there that day, not in any lay claim to not only being first at the South Pole, official capacity mind you, but more or less in just but also to the North Pole. He did not seem to be passing through. I think Kaare Rodahl, a cold particularly impressed that something else could weather physiologist, may have been the official be added to his vitae, but accepted it as a representative of your country at the ceremonies. possibility. I had to spoil his moment of instant Do you have any more questions, Roald?” glory by telling him that it was all much ado about nothing, as the world is in the midst of Roald then asked about his companion on the global warming, which is most pronounced in the Belgica Expedition, Dr. Frederick Cook, saying polar regions, and that within a few decades all that the last time he saw him was when he was in the North Pole will be part of an expanded ice- Leavenworth. I told him that I had never met free ocean. Then I added that the Russans recently him, really did not know much about him, but that felt that they had a legitimate claim to the North he apparently died an inglorious death about Pole, and had put a territorial claiming stake on 1940, with very few authorities believing any of the bedrock surface below the North Pole. This his accomplishments. However a small corps of really brought a deep-throated laugh out of family and friends of the family remained Amundsen. steadfast to his memory. This led me to comment that the other pretender to the North Pole, Robert (To be concluded in January’s Newsletter)

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